“Debt-ridden Americans blame capitalism. “The reason that capitalism increasingly is discredited and socialism increasingly is popular is that our current system is making people poorer. Go to college we tell them, you’ll be successful if you do, but too often that advise is outdated, if not an utter lie. Huge numbers of our kids wind up impoverished by the experience of college, their dreams thwarted forever. The reason for that debt,” says Tucker Carlson in his opening statement.